The sign for Mel’s Bar and Grill is finally gone from Fillmore Street — replaced by the logo for the upcoming Iron Mountain Winery.

Meanwhile, Mel Master continues to operate Montecito North on East 6th Avenue and Montecito South and Annabel’s at Orchard and Holly.

Ginny Kontnik was handling the front at Annabel’s, but she’s now there only part-time. Mel’s son, Charles Master, is there all the time.

And Mel says Montecito chef Adam Mali is thinking about moving back to California with his family.

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NPRâ€™s â€œWait Wait â€¦ Donâ€™t Tell Me!â€? is set to be taped tonight in Aspenâ€™s Wheeler Opera House. Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell will host a panel that includes Tom Bodett, Amy Dickenson and Adam Felber. Aspenites Robert Wagner and Jill St. John are the celeb guests in a segment called â€œNot My Job,â€? where they are asked questions about things they donâ€™t know about.

Tickets are a whopping $100 each, or $250 for the show and a reception with the hosts. But you can listen in free 1-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at KCFR-1340 AM.

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You can have cocktails with P.J. tonight. Or you can have cocktails in your PJs. But not both, pal. It would be too dangerous.

In some bizarre twist of synchronicity, conservative author/humorist P.J. Oâ€™Rourke is in Denver Thursday for the Cocktail with P.J. Party at the Denver Press Club.

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At the same time, Mayor John Hickenlooper and hotelier Walter Isenberg host their Second Annual PJ Party at the Residence Inn, a funder to fight homelessness.

Oâ€™Rourke will talk about his book â€œOn The Wealth of Nationsâ€? â€” a retelling of Adam Smithâ€™s 1776 tome on economics and capitalism.

Hick and Isenberg will stand around in their pajamas taking about the homeless.

Oâ€™Rourke isnâ€™t sure what Smith would think of the pajama party for the homeless. And no one has ever come to an Oâ€™Rourke event in PJs.

But P.J. has always had reservations since initializing his moniker. â€œI never thought of it as PJs,â€? he said. â€œThen I figured I would be known as â€˜Pajamas Oâ€™Rourkeâ€™ for the rest of my life. Now itâ€™s not so funny, as I am actually middle-aged man who sits around in his pajamas.â€?

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He currently lives in NYC and works for NFL Network â€” and on Saturday, before the weekend games, he asked his girlfriend of five months to be his wife. Heâ€™s keeping her name a secret â€” but not the news that heâ€™s in love.

They met on a blind date July 4th â€” and itâ€™s been game time ever since.

â€œI would have proposed to her the first day I met her,â€? he says. â€œI have never felt such inner peace and happiness. Itâ€™s unbelievable. I feel totally complete.â€?

Friends of Schefter know heâ€™s had a few bumps in his romantic life. Heck, he makes me look like Dr. Phil. But he says this is the real deal.

â€œSheâ€™s unlike any woman I have ever met. Sheâ€™s a star.â€?

He presented her with a half-carat ring as a gag, then had her 5-year-old son come in with the rock of Gibraltar. Theyâ€™ll wed in New York in June.

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I have an advance copy of next monthâ€™s Esquire â€” which has good news and sad news for Colorado readers.
The sad is the replacement of Boulder babe Jessica Biel as Sexiest Woman Alive by Scarlett Johansson. Well, itâ€™s not a bad trade-off.
Then we get to John Marianiâ€™s annual Best New Restaurants roster. Mariani is known for touring the country, often on the cuff, checking out the hot new joints in dozens of cities.
No Colorado restaurants make the â€œbestâ€? list this year. But we donâ€™t go unnoticed.
Summit at the Broadmoor was lobbying for the list, but it comes in with a nod for â€œBest New Design.â€? And Adam Tihanyâ€™s vision at this casual, elegant spot is deliciously eye-popping. Mariani likes the food too â€” with half his copy praising chef Bertrand Bouquin grub. â€œItâ€™s a joy to sit at Summit in view of all that natural grandeur, which is about the only thing that could distract you from all the goodness on your plate.â€?Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson at Frasca in Boulder is one of Four Chefs to Watch. â€œWholly committed to exalting the food of Italyâ€™s Friuli region, Mackinnon-Patterson does it with such personal style that he has made Boulder worth a drive up from Denver.â€?
Amen.
Iâ€™ve recently dined at both restaurants and Iâ€™m still smacking my lips.

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